President Bashar al-Assad's forces fired heavy tank and rocket barrages at a Damascus suburb today, killing five people, opposition activists said, a day before a UN-brokered ceasefire is due to come into force.
Suicide attackers detonated bombs and fired rockets outside a major US base in Afghanistan today, killing five people in a brazen operation that highlighted the country's security challenges ahead of the 2014 NATO combat troop pullout.
The UN Security Council today unanimously condemned North Korea's December rocket launch and expanded existing UN sanctions thanks to a deal secured by the United States and Pyongyang's ally China.
Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi bombarded Misrata with rockets and artillery and 17 people were killed in the previous day's shelling of the besieged Libyan city, a rebel spokesman said.
Five US service members were killed in a rocket attack in Iraq today in the worst single toll for American troops in the country in at least two years, the US military and Iraqi security officials said.
North Korea rejected criticism of its planned long-range missile launch which threatens to upset its only major benefactor, China, and put relations with the United States back in the freezer just as they seemed to be starting to thaw.